Beautiful Lavender Calendula Tea Cake

With summer just over I have plenty of beautiful and heavenly scented Lavender blossom in my garden. Together with Calendula flowers picked and dried during the summer these ingredients will make a very tasty cake in the most beautiful colors of late summer. If you do not have Calendula flowers at hand, just leave them out of the recipe, and this cake will be equally delicious with just Lavender flowers.

Once everything is nicely stirred together, add lemon juice of 1/2 an organic lemon, lemon zest and a teaspoon of vanilla sugar.

Now add two tablespoons of fresh and / or dried lavender blossoms. Keep a few blossoms for the top of the cake and for decoration. Make sure to breathe in deeply and fully enjoy the lovely late summer scent.

Then add two tablespoons of dried Calendula leaves. Also here keep a few blossoms for the top of the cake and for decoration.

Gently stir the beautiful blossoms into your dough.

(Optional) Add and stir in a drop of lavender essential oil to make the taste and scent even more intense.

Pour the batter into your prepared pan.

Sprinkle a few more blossoms of both flowers on top of the dough and then put your pan into the oven preheated to 170° Celsius / 340° Fahrenheit.

Bake the cake for about one hour until it begins to brown on top. There will be a very lovely, heavenly scent of baked cake and lavender in your house. Check if the cake is ready by picking a toothpick or a larding pin deep into the cake. If it comes out clean, your cake is ready, if there is still dough sticking to it, extend the baking times in 5 minute segments and repeat the pin check.

When your cake is ready take it out of the oven and put it to the side for cooling.

Icing and cake decoration

For the icing prepare 50 grams of powdered sugar and 1/2 an organic lemon.

Slowly add drops of lemon juice to the sugar and keep stirring and adding until a nice thick consistency is reached.

When your lemon icing is ready prepare a few more leaves and flowers for the decoration of your cake.

Now drizzle the lemon icing over your cake.

Decorate the cake with lavender flowers.

And sprinkle some lavender and calendula flower petals over the still soft icing.